Right so I started trying to update the blog days ago, but my connection at home has been pretty much non-existent. So here I sit, on the way home, in Dubai airport.....
Since the last update, weeks ago, my excuse is simple - year-end and the chaos that goes along with yearbook, graduation, report cards, student-led conferences and the extended list of things I needed to get done before June 12.
So June 12 has passed and I can breathe again, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, mmmm now that feels better !
We're all good, survived the last few weeks anyway. Happy Birthday to our friends and family celebrating in June - Jordyn, Kyle, Steven, Val, Aunty Mary, David, Kathy and any others I may have missed.
Conferences went well - Lucy shared on May 31 with much excitement (see photos below - Lucy with André and Lucy with her teacher Traci Porter). My students did a fabulous job as well with their electronic portfolios and many a parent was heard saying "well I am impressed, I couldn't do all that !" - very satisfying.
We are enjoying to a small degree the beginning of summer - well the mornings and late afternoons anyway hehehe You'll see the new weather forecast on the side bar shows the wonderful warm days and nights we're starting to see again. Thankfully escape to SA which should mean we'll miss a good part of the heat.
This was us at a Friday Pool BBQ, they have an inflatable island for the 'kids' and well any parent brave enough to navigate it too.
Not much else going on, last few days before leaving - other than fighting for connection and going in to work - a whole lot easier with it being quieter, we have just been at home getting ready to go. Sadly saying goodbye to my good friend Kathy - good luck honey, see you in the US some day, look after yourself ! (Kathy on the left, Cynthia on the right - another good friend) These others are also school photos - Ryan was over from the US to see Carrie graduate from high school (Bruce and Norma's children), this is a shot of him in uniform with Jana just before graduation.
And well these are the girls' class photos and then the school photo. Just had some fun with these so you can pick them/us out of the crowd :)
And lastly, my homeroom class for 2006-2007.
This is grade 7B - have a wonderful summer guys, this year together has been .... um .....interesting hehehe.
